A historical unique artistic and documentary work, written in the genre of detective by the popular Russian writer Yevgeny Ryabtsev and scientist Mikhail Kalinin, is full of sharp dramatic events. Readers have different fates, characters, social types - from employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to combat corruption to the "thief in law" with the sexual manners of the criminal Adolf; from the participant of the Great Patriotic War Moskalenko to the heroes of the Afghan battle and generals, officers, soldiers of the civil war in Chechnya, Dudaev's companies and battalions, from the villainous murders of citizens in Rostov to the massive bloody extermination of civilians in Grozny.